Friday, March 30, 2012
SUVA (Radio Australia Pacific Beat/Pacific Media Watch): A Papua New Guinea government official has been called arrogant and ignorant after claiming at the Pacific Media summit that it's not...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): While debates about the causes of climate change swing back and forth, the plight of those affected by it was played out tonight at the Pacific Media Centre at AUT...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Alex Perrottet KIRIBATI (Pacific Media Watch): An Auckland-based independent newspaper in Kiribati is facing a bureaucratic roadblock in its attempt to gain permission to publish in the republic.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Mosmi Bhim: A day after the military takeover of the Fiji government on 5 December 2006, Commodore Bainimarama proclaimed a nationwide state of emergency that gave wide-ranging powers to the military...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Alex Perrottet AUCKLAND: Sixty one media academics have put their signatures to an open letter to the New Zealand government criticising its decision to axe TVNZ7.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
HONIARA: Solomon Islands Prime Minister Danny Philip says no action has been taken against his former press secretary, Alfred Sasako, over the controversial leaked “secret intelligence report...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Alex Perrottet AUCKLAND: Just as Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd was defending his record in the Pacific, it has been reported by Radio Australia that the new trade policy released...
Friday, March 25, 2011
PORT VILA: The president of the Vanuatu chapter of Transparency International, Marie Noelle Ferrieux-Patterson, has no regrets over her statement that if political corruption is not dealt with, the...
Friday, March 25, 2011
MELBOURNE: As the Melanesian Speahead Group meeting goes ahead in Suva, an Australia-based pressure group is calling for full membership for West Papua. Listen to the interview.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
JAKARTA: Two Australian newspapers are being sued for publishing articles based on leaked US cables that allege President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a number of state officials had misused their...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
WELLINGTON: Former Defence Force head Jerry Mateparae has been named New Zealand's governor-general, the Dominion Post reports.
The government revealed his selection this morning.
Mateparae...
Friday, December 17, 2010
Douglas Marau
HONIARA: The Danny Philip-led Solomon Islands government has been praised by the four other Melanesian Spearhead Group countries and territories for facilitating the reconciliation...
